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Full-Day Workshop

Seminar: The Reading Brain

Reading is an acquired skill in the brain, and not a skill that we are born with. Teaching reading has limitations in that the brain requires multiple pathways to work together to develop this skill efficiently. Even in a warm, embracing teaching or therapeutic relationship, we tend to need to break down different parts of reading, though efficient reading requires the brain to do the separate functions together. An effective program should target reading decoding, working memory, visual and auditory processing, and visual spatial skills as well as improve reading comprehension. This workshop would be interesting to anyone working in pediatric development, or pre-school or schools.

Dates:

23 Nov 2018 (Fri)

Time:

9.00am - 5.00pm

Venue:

Copthorne King's Hotel Singapore403 Havelock RoadSingapore 169632

Speaker: Maude Le Roux, OTR/L, International Trainer

Maude Le Roux is returning to us in Singapore for her seventh visit and continues to inspire us with new learning, impacting on our intervention with children and adults. Her workshops are popular and previos feedback included much praise. She is an accomplished occupational therapist with great affinity for learning and understanding the human brain. She was born and raised in South Africa and graduated from the University of Stellenbosch in Cape Town in 1984. Maude and Charl Le Roux moved to the USA in 1993 and opened A Total Approach in September 2001. Maude is SIPT certified and specializes in Sensory Integration services as it applies to functional activities of daily living, including improving the ability of children / students of all ages to partake in his/her learning environment.

Maude has been trained in several different programs in developing reading and writing skills over the past 15 years. She designs her own live courses with regards to emotional processing and executive functioning. Maude works with a team of occupational therapists and speech language pathologists in her practice. She is well known for her experience and work with children who carry a diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum, Attachment, Sensory Processing Disorder, and Dyslexia/ Learning Disabilities. Maude is a mentor to many therapists, including OT and DIR professionals internationally. She has presented at conferences in a variety of settings across the US and also internationally. She has co-authored the book, The Listening Journey, with Francoise Nicoloff, and her second book, Our Greatest Allies, is now available on Amazon.com. Her basic philosophy is that all children can learn, and that therapists and teachers are instrumental in finding out the “key” to each child. She enjoys empowering professionals to do just that!

Course Outline

09.00 to 10.15

The Reading Brain

10.15 to 10.30

Break

10.30 to 11.30

The impact of the visual system on reading

11.30 to 12.30

The impact of the auditory and timing system on reading

12.30 to 13.30

Lunch

13.30 to 14.30

Assessment

14.30 to 15.30

Intervention

15.30 to 15.45

Break

15.45 to 17.00

Case study

Course Objectives

Participants will be able to :

Describe the 7 building blocks to proficient reading

Review the neuro-anatomy related to reading

Learn about 7 different assessments that may be helpful to assess more fully.

Distinguish the different perceptual related components of the different skills required